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by occz 5y ago
Mostly marketing, but also the bigger vehicle safety dilemma: if you drive a bigger vehicle and crash with a smaller vehicle, you will be fine but the smaller vehicle will not. Hence, to remain safe in a world where some drivers get SUVs&#x
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by occz 5y ago
There's a fairly simple solution to the issue of excessive noise from neighbours in apartments: have rules for when noise can be made and when noise cannot be made, and enforce them with fines/eviction.
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by occz 5y ago
This already exists, in the form of various think tanks and lobbying organisations. Maybe that was the joke you were making though, I can't quite tell.
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by occz 5y ago
>It is the most economically viable product, which is why they dominate. Only because they are the only thing that most zoning codes in the U.S permit to build. With U.S zoning being what it is, there's literally no honest discussio
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by occz 5y ago
Even though Compose Desktop is still Alpha, I think you can probably make something viable with it, after having tested it out a while.
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by occz 5y ago
>What are the net advantages of being in a city? It used to be access to good employment was the main thing but with remote work this often isn't as much of a factor anymore. This is only really true for the type of privileged perso
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by occz 5y ago
Alternatively, take one of many fully autonomous trains. We already have driverless vehicles, it's just that cars are downright bad, more or less.
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by occz 5y ago
That's one of the more dystopian things I've read this week.
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by occz 5y ago
Bicycling on its own is not really an issue. The issue is cars, the truly dangerous mode of transportation, and any solution starts with a reduction in the harm they bring. Getting rid of the most energy-efficient mode of transportation, on
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by occz 5y ago
Induction stoves do indeed seem to be more expensive in the U.S, but they don't seem to be entirely out of budget for the average consumer: IKEA sells a few for around $600-800. IKEA in Sweden where I live has induction stoves for as c
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by occz 5y ago
>Yet about half of the electricity in NY is generated with natural gas[1), so most of the "benefits" this article touts, especially pollution, don't really exist. You're right in that from a strict energy perspective,
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by occz 5y ago
It's not a question of economics, it's about not purposefully wasting resources. Perhaps you'll be surprised to hear that I also turn off the lights in rooms that I am not in, or that I don't keep cars running when I&#x2
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by occz 5y ago
>A Navy shower (also known as a "combat shower", "military shower", "sea shower", "staggered shower", or "G.I. bath") is a method of showering that allows for significant conservation of
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by occz 5y ago
I was under the impression that Germany primarily relies on gas for home heating, and not for electricity generation, and that this is what makes gas less replaceable in Germany's situation. Targeted investment in improved insulation a
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by occz 5y ago
>If you compare German and French electricity prices, you will see that renewables are a long way from being cheap. Don't they sell energy to each other, on account of being in the EU and having their grids connected? I'd assum
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by occz 5y ago
Presumably a lot of Python-developers already know what an ORM is and how they can benefit from it, in particular given how long SQLAlchemy has been around. The rest can presumably hit up their favourite search engine and type in 'ORM&
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by occz 5y ago
>lsn't their voter base voting with the wallet by using these convenient delivery services? Not to say that this is good or bad, but the monetary transaction does not factor in the externalities, which means that it is ultimately in
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by occz 5y ago
Other than being unviable for creating iOS-applications, I find it significantly nicer. Merely being able to use Kotlin instead of Dart is a huge advantage.
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by occz 5y ago
If I had to bet on one path forward, this would be it. Shared-nothing View layers and then building the rest of the layers for sharing with KMP. I have yet to give it a serious try, but it seems to be the least bad alternative out there.
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by occz 5y ago
>Despite its shortcomings and Google connection Flutter is really nice to build and Android apps with one code base, and l'd prefer it even for just an Android app by now. Have you tried building android apps with Compose? It's
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by occz 5y ago
Yes, I have lived in a place that has real winters, unless you don't think the northern part of Sweden qualifies. For a city that does winter cycling properly, refer to Oulu in Finland. Winter cycling is common, because the infrastruct
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by occz 5y ago
>Removing damn near all city parking spaces. The absolute arrogance of thinking that the city should use some of their most valuable real estate so that you can cheaply store your personal property is baffling. >If you live downtown a
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by occz 5y ago
It's not really that these cities were built for the car, moreso that they were bulldozed in order to over-accomodate the car.
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by occz 5y ago
Ok, so let's implement them only in the non-rural areas, where the large majority of the population in Europe and the U.S lives.
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by occz 5y ago
Car infrastructure is far, far too expensive. The U.S is already deep under water in its maintenance, and as this problem continues to be ignored, the lower the viability of cars will be. It's actually pretty interesting to see people
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by occz 5y ago
The roman roads didn't have to bear the load that modern roads do. Road wear is approximately (weight^4 ), meaning that the only vehicles that even matter in the calculation are trucks.
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by occz 5y ago
Gas is still an inferior solution in those cases - wood pellets are better for those climates. Better yet, a combination of heat pumps and wood pellet furnaces gives you the best of both worlds - very energy-efficient heating while the temp
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by occz 5y ago
Spoken like someone who has never used an induction burner in their entire life. I've used both and induction clearly comes out on top, by a huge margin. As for home heating with gas: wrong again - heat pumps are the superior method, a
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by occz 5y ago
Given that the average car spends 95% of its lifetime being parked, I don't think this is as big of an issue as you make it out to be.
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by occz 5y ago
Cars are a bad option for long-range transportation anyway. I'm not convinced at all by this argument.

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